[A-DX] Fwd: [d x l d] UK Minister 'acknowledges poor sound quality' of digital

[Roger <roger.roger@xxxxxx>]

This from today's Daily Telegraph:
The Government minister overseeing the switch-over to digital radio has 
reportedly admitted that the new service is often marred by poor 
coverage and sound quality.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey said criticisms, which also included claims 
that the technology was out-of-date and that the listeners were happy 
with what they had already, had "elements of truth", according to the 
Daily Mail.
It is the latest blow to plans to switch over radio from analogue to 
digital, or DAB, by 2015.
Earlier this year a senior industry executive said the target was "dead 
in the water" after figures showed sales of digital radios actuall fell 
last year, while a leaked Government document revealed that it is set to 
be pushed back to 2017.
The plans to abandon analogue FM services have come in for a series of 
criticisms - acknowledged by Mr Vaizey when he spoke at the Drive to 
Digital conference at the BBC this week.
He reportedly said: "You will no doubt have heard the negatives of 
digital radio, there has certainly been no shortage of column inches 
devoted to the subject.
They often suggest that DAB is an out-of-date technology, that coverage 
and sound quality are inferior to analogue and listeners are already 
happy with what they've got, so why change?
"There are of course elements of truth in all these statements."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8837806/Minister-acknowledges-poor-sound-quality-of-digital.html

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Aha, Empfangs- und Soundqualtät von Digitalradio in UK öfters 
"ärmlich"..............bzw. sagt man wahrscheinlich eloquenter: 
"erbärmlich".......
Die Masse ist zufrieden mit dem was sie hat...........lieber den 
analogen Spatz in der Hand als die digitale Taube auf dem Dach, die 
angeblich eine Nachtigall sein soll.......
.........und wenn man doch schon den fetten Braten in der (TV)-Röhre 
hat.........



73+55 roger
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